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The winners of the "Best New Artist" trophy at the most recent Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, DAAP Girls, will celebrate the debut of their new music video tonight at Japp's Annex on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine.
The spooky, visually arresting clip is for "Molly," one of the many great tracks off of the band's debut album, Tape Songs (every song has a girl's name). Shot at the Kenneweg Compound in Alexandria, Ky., "Molly" was directed by local visual artist Philip LaVelle, alongside graphic designer Josh Jacob and videographer Sean Steininger. The video is mesmerizing and matches up with the lurching, dreamy swagger of the song perfectly. It's fairly low-budget, but doesn't look it, with it's creatively captivating effects and overall vibe.
DAAP Girls guitarist/singer Stuart MacKenzie provided this synopsis of the video:
"The video tells a story of five young people on the cusp of adulthood enjoying a last weekend together. (Unbeknown) to them, they are being viewed by the ghosts of their future's past. The video incorporates aspects of romance, nostalgia and magical realism to tell an alternate, complimentary story to the song."
Tonight's new video celebration at Japp's kicks off at 9 p.m. with a DAAP Girls performance, followed by the screening of the clip at 10 p.m. The band will perform after the screening as well.
Here's a sneak peek of "Molly," followed by the video's creative credits:
Directed by Philip LaVelle
Filmed by Sean Steinger and Josh Jacob
Edited by Sean Steinger, Josh Jacob and Philip LaVelle
Special effects by Josh Jacob
Casting by Erica Turer
Catering by Joe Diedenhofer
Filmmed on location at Kenneweg Compound, Alexandria, KY
Special thanks to Josh and Stephanie Kenneweg
Cast: Cody Reinhard Amir Gamble, Zachary Müller, Sarah Davenport, Rosie Carpenter, Emma Roberts, and Allison Gathof
DAAP Girls is: Jay Duckworth, Stuart MacKenzie, Daniel Peterson, Alex Duckworth, Michael Felger, Collin Thompson, Brian Gilronan.
Those retro/modern/futuristic urban-gothic sonics are perfectly reflected in the brand new video clip for "Oxygen." The ominous video — written by Thomas Stemrich (Director) and Josh Chiara (Director of Photography) of local band Holy Beast — was shot over three days in Northside and Over-the-Rhine.
The nutshell synopsis of the video:
"In New Berlin, in the basements of post-industrial mansions, lost youths pray to shrines for nothing and participate in rituals that don't matter. But tonight, one of New Berlin's daughters is through with the minutia, ready to dive beneath the insincerity of cult posturing, and finally awaken the beacon of change that swells beneath the city streets. Will this be another lost night in Neverland or will she finally meet the beast of her dreams?"
Stemrich and Chiara have made other music videos, including "Night Drive" for the local act Polar Sky (Polar Sky and Skeleton Hands both record for locally based Racecar Productions). Sharfe says "Night Drive," and now "Oxygen," are unofficially akin to part of a "series," with the Polar Sky clip setting the "New Berlin" tone initially, and the Skeleton Hands' video taking it further.
"In the New Berlin videos, we see Cincinnati through a dystopic lens," Sharfe says. "Prostitutes, cults, deities, people with holes in their torsos. Strange stuff."
Skeleton Hands are currently taking pre-orders for copies of Gone on vinyl. Click here to get in on the action. "Oxygen" will be available as a single this fall through Racecar. The single release will feature remixes, including ones by Kontravoid and the aforementioned Polar Sky.
The duo also returns to the MidPoint Music Festival this year, coming up towards the end of September in various venues around Over-the-Rhine and Downtown. Skeleton Hands is slated to perform at 10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, at MPMF venue Below Zero Lounge (on Walnut Street, next to Emery Theatre). Click here for MPMF tickets (or visit Fountain Square Friday night between 8-11 p.m., where you can buy tickets in person — one night only — for $10-$20 off).
The grand finale of the season-long MidPoint Indie Summer concert series is Friday on Fountain Square. It's always a bittersweet moment — the free series ends for this summer, but that only means that the MidPoint Music Festival is less than one month away.
The MidPoint Indie Summer series concludes just in time to kick off Labor Day weekend this Friday. The show is headlined by internationally beloved/locally based Why?, which is set to release its Golden Ticket EP in a few weeks. The EP is the result of some fan-engaging fun on the group's website.
On the Why? site, frontman Yoni Wolf explains: "We would write a theme song for one customer who came to the … web store and bought something every month. Like Mighty Mouse. It would be a song about that person. We'd read all about them on Facebook and Twitter, and sometimes even go so far as to contact their significant other to ask them questions. Then I would write the song on piano and my brother would take the skeleton of lyrics and piano and turn it into a fully realized arrangement." (Read more on Why? here.)
(Wolf, by the way, has also been hosting his own very entertaining podcast called The Wandering Wolf (free for download on iTunes and Soundcloud). The show's have been hilarious and insightful, with Wolf chatting with guests like James McNew of Indie Rock legends Yo La Tengo, Cincinnati Hip Hop legend Mr. Dibbs and he and his brother's own father.)
Also at the finale, there will be a one-time only special on tickets to the forthcoming MidPoint Music Festival 2013. Those purchasing tickets in person at the Square Friday can buy three-day passes for $59 ($10 off) and three-day VIP passes for $149 ($20 off). Visit mpmf.com for the latest on the fest and mpmf.cincyticket.com for tickets (if you can't make it Friday).
Also performing Friday on the Square: Nashville's Moon Taxi and Cincy's Vito Emmanuel. Showtime is 8 p.m.
On June 4, one of the more beloved bands in Cincinnati (and, increasingly, the rest of the country), Indie Pop greats The Seedy Seeds, announced that they were going on "break" on their Facebook page. The post was worded to suggest this is an "indefinite hiatus" — the words "break up" were not used, but there's no sign of activity from the band on the horizon (fans are also leaving "R.I.P." messages on their Facebook page).
In the "break" announcement that sounds like a "goodbye" one, the trio writes, "While we each have new projects to which we must now turn our energies, it's very hard to imagine how to live any moments from this point on as anything but Seedy Seeds."
Some of those new projects have been making themselves known recently. Seed Margaret Darling has been performing her solo material regularly on the local club front and, yesterday, it was announced she has some touring in her immediate future.
The band Distant Correspondent, described as Indie Dream Pop and featuring members located in different cities around the world, announced that Darling will be joining them on their upcoming fall tour. The supergroup made itself known to the public earlier this year and received a lot of press right off the bat. The band features David Obuchowski from Brooklyn's Goes Cube, the U.K.'s Emily Gray (from British Post Rock crew and John Peel faves Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia), multi-instrumentalist Michael Lengel on drums (whom Obuchowski met when he moved to Colorado) and Seattle bassist Tyler Wilcox, as well as fantastic Indie singer/songwriter Edith Frost (who is not touring with the band this fall).
Here's what Obuchowski had to say about bringing Darling into the fold:
Being in a band with members in different cities and even countries is pretty liberating. Sure, it's not always the easiest thing in the world from a practical standpoint. But the flip-side is that it affords us the opportunity work with musicians we love, even if they don't live close.
With that in mind, we're thrilled to announce that we'll be bringing along Cincinnati-based solo artist, MARGARET DARLING as our featured vocalist for our upcoming record release tour. We're big fans of Margaret's solo work, and her work in the now-defunct Cincinnati indie-pop powerhouse THE SEEDY SEEDS. In fact, when it came time to put together a show in Cincinnati for our record release tour, we asked Margaret Darling to share the bill with us before we tapped any other artist. Margaret's music (as a solo artist and with her former band, The Seedy Seeds) has been described as "dizzying, perplexing and wonderfully fun" (NPR), and "no less than impressive - intimate and addictive" (CincyMusic.com).
Darling is joining the tour as "guest vocalist," beginning on the opening date in Denver on Oct. 23, the day after the band's self-titled album is released through Hot Congress/Old Flame Records. Click here to check out the music video for the Distant Correspondent track "Summit."
Meanwhile, Darling's Seedy Seeds co-founder Mike Ingram has been busy as a road sound technician, but he has found time to work with a new collaborator, great local singer/songwriter/guitarist Jasmine Poole, who works under the name Wonky Tonk.
Ingram (who harmonizes and plays guitar) and Poole have been working on new Wonky Tonk material and, given their hectic schedules, they even created a cyber-concert for fans to check out while they wait for it.
Wonky Tonk Live Aug 2013 from Wonky Tonk on Vimeo.
As luck would have it, both musicians are currently in town and tonight will be performing at the Nothside Tavern. The free show (in the club's "front room") features Wonky Tonk, Mr. Pointy and Kyrst and starts at 9 p.m.Volbeat has been headlining huge shows in Europe for nearly a decade and now they are bringing their Metal sound to the States. In the position of up-and-comer again, they bring their high level energy to American, which has translated into sold out shows across the country. Currently Volbeat is touring on its new album, Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies.
CityBeat was able to catch up with new band member and former Anthrax lead guitarist Rob Caggiano in preparation for the band's upcoming show in Cincinnati to discuss the transition into a new band and his broad musical influences that have helped him evolve since childhood. He definitely has brings a strong, veteran presence to a band that was already rising to new heights. Check out Volbeat headlining the Rock Allegiance Tour at US Bank Arena this Sunday with HIM, All That Remains and Airbourne.
CityBeat: Could you tell me about the moment in the studio working with Volbeat on their new album that you realized you really could be in the band or it would be a good fit?
Rob Caggiano: They had asked me to be a part of it two weeks into the process of recording. So it was pretty early on into the whole thing. I think it really stemmed from the first meeting we had when they called me initially when I left Anthrax and put the press release out there. A couple days later I flew to Denmark and sat down with Michael and went over the tunes and then ideas for the new record. We ended up collaborating and making music together. It was such a fun vibe and such a great chemistry. I think that was kind of a catalyst for everything else.
CB: I saw you guys at Rock on the Range for the first time playing together. It was really amazing. What was your favorite Rock on the Range moment this year?
RC: We definitely had a really good time during our show. It was a lot of fun. Rock on the Range, to me, is one of the coolest festivals here in the States. It seems like America is catching up finally with what is going on in Europe with these outdoor festivals. Rock on the Range is very well put together, very organized, just very pro and well done. It's always a good time. I did get a chance to see Lamb of God play, about half their set and that was killer. It was great to see Randy back up on stage.
CB: Has there been any hazing or initiation since you joined the band?
RC: Not really, I was doing all the hazing. It has been pretty cool, pretty seamless, the whole transition. The way it went down, it was very organic and felt very comfortable from the beginning. It has been cool. We are having a blast.
CB: I know it must have been a difficult decision to leave Anthrax which had been your job for the last 12 years. What were the factors for moving on?
RC: I just had this feeling of being stuck. I just felt like I was on a conveyor belt, doing that for so long. I still love those guys dearly and they are like my family. I just wasn't happy. It got to the point where I just wasn't happy and I was questioning myself and what I am doing here. What are we doing? What's going to happen in the future? I just came to the conclusion I needed a change.
I think the main part of the problem was that Anthrax was never a creative outlet for me. By no choice of my own, that was just the way it had been. I think after all those years my heart wasn't in it anymore and I needed something different. It was definitely an emotional, difficult decision to make but it was something that needed to be done.
CB: What is your favorite guitar solo to play on the new Volbeat record and out on tour?
RC: I have two favorites. I enjoy playing the "Lola Montez" solo and the "Doc Holliday" solo.
CB: I know you have been producing for several years helping out bands and doing Anthrax and Volbeat records. Do you ever see yourself stepping out of Rock or Metal and producing other genres? There are a lot of collaborations happening right now with different genres of music.
RC: Absolutely. I never saw myself as a solely a Metal producer. To be honest, when I am at home, I don't really listen to Metal. It's probably because it is what I do all the time. My influences are really varied and I listen to so many different albums and genres of music. I just consider myself a musician. I put 100% of my heart into whatever I am working on. With all these different influences, I can definitely do a lot of different things and have done a lot of different things in the past.
CB: What are you listening to right now? What is influencing you?
RC: My favorite record right now, if we are talking about new bands and newer records, is this band called The National. I think (they're) phenomenal.
CB: They are actually from Cincinnati.
RC: Yeah, it seems like they are doing pretty well all over the world. Their new record is phenomenal. I think it is just great, the production is amazing, the songs are great. I have never met the band. I had heard the name but I had never heard the music. We were doing a record signing in Copenhagen and I asked one of the girls at the store what was her favorite record, what should I check out, what came in that is the new hot record. She said to get the new National record. I said "Ok, I'll give it a shot." She was right. I dig it. I like Lana Del Rey too.
CB: Do you ever plan to sit down and write your Rock biography?
RC: Maybe one day down the road. I don't know if I'm ready yet.
CB: I'm sure you have plenty of stories. What is your craziest tour story with Volbeat right now?
RC: It really isn't that crazy on the road with these guys. It's pretty mellow. It is a very focused thing. We do our show … the thing about being on tour, especially with Volbeat, we are headlining a lot of these festivals in Europe so we are going on late. We get there early at these festival sites and have a whole day of nothing. It is kind of boring just waiting to go on stage. Nothing really crazy has happened yet but I will keep you posted.
CB: I am shocked you haven't seen crazy things at the European festivals with fans.
RC: I guess it depends what you call crazy.
CB: Yeah, your idea of crazy may be different than mine. You may be like, "That's totally normal."
RC: Exactly
CB: What was the name of your first band?
RC: My first band ever was when I was 14 years old. We were called "Wild Heart."
CB: Do you keep in touch with those guys?
RC: Kind of. I saw the other guitar player recently in Florida. He has been a friend of mine forever. The rest of the guys I have not spoken to in a long time.
CB: Do you play any other instruments?
RC: Yeah, I play drums. I play keys. I do our programming when I need to. I just make noise basically. I can pretty much get anything to sound decent. As a kid, I started out playing drums so that has always been in my heart. I went to the guitar from that.
CB: Your parents were supportive of the drums in the house?
RC: Well they bought them. Yeah, my parents were huge supporters of my music. My Dad is really into the music thing. It was definitely a very healthy atmosphere growing up for creativity and inspiration. There was always music around which was cool.
CB: I started hearing about Volbeat and listening to Volbeat about two years ago when they were just coming to the U.S. Obviously they are huge in Europe, beyond headlining. What do you think is the biggest difference so far in the U.S. shows and the European shows?
RC: In the U.S. it is very much on the rise, the shows over here are getting bigger and bigger and bigger. With them, we did two legs, two U.S. legs and every show was killer. Back in 2010, that is when I first met these guys with my other band, The Damned Things, they took us on tour. That's when I first heard the music and met the guys and became friends. Even that tour was sold out every night. It was an awesome tour. Volbeat is definitely on the rise in America. In Europe obviously it is crazy. It is just a really good feeling all around. There is a lot of excitement about this band and the new record, just good vibes.
Saturday at Mayday in Northside, the great Cincinnati Indie Rock band Koala Fires will be performing for the last time. But the band is also saying goodbye with a gem of an album, Doom of the Norns, the band's second full-length, which will be officially released tomorrow in conjunction with the show. The Fires will be joined by Chicago's Brighton, MA and Cincy's Jody Stapleton and the Generals. Performers from Cin City Burlesque will also entertain between sets. Doors open at 8 p.m. and admission is $7. (Koala Fires will donate half of their merchandise sales Saturday night to help relocate the women of the Anna-Louise Inn.)
Doom of the Norns is a compelling piece of art, an Indie Pop/Rock record with a hefty emotional weight. Singer/songwriter Matt Mooney's vocals have never sounded better, his honey-dipped instrument crooning the album's up-and-down tales of finding love and losing it. It's not a unique concept, but in Mooney's hands, it feels real, raw, somber and often explosive. (Mooney wrote the record to help him get through the demise of his 10-year marriage.)
Mooney and guitarist Ben Evans play beautifully off of each other, their intertwining fretwork creating a wash of dynamic sound. Drummer Matt Retherford and bassist Matt Zink fuel the songs with precision and a distinctive flair; Retherford's fiery yet intuitive playing, in particular, is a crucial part of the albums success.
But the heart of the album is the passionate songwriting. These are Pop/Rock songs, but Mooney's melodies wind in unexpected directions and the songs themselves are dynamically structured. "Grim is the Doom of the Norns" sets the tone, building with twinkling guitars and Mooney's voice showcasing that early-love "head in the clouds" state of mind, before ripping into a big, exuberant chorus. "Nuckalavee" bops along on a jaunty rhythm, undercut by cutting lyrics like, "Do you want control of me? That might be nice/But after years and years he'll escape one night/He will terrorize, drink tears from your eyes and then scare your pain away."
Mooney may just be one of the best Rock lyricists in town. The powerful "Valley of the Kings" begins with the lines, "There used to be a thousand ways to tear this down and start again/But, now it seems there's just one way and it involves a match and some kerosene." The album gets progressively dark, but the words aren't defeatist — they sound like the kind of lyrics someone would write to come to terms with the ending a long relationship. It's artistic therapy. By the last couple of tracks, there is hope and resolve.
There is emotion to spare on Doom of the Norns, but this ain't no wallowing Emo spew. Mooney delves into his despair and writes about it smartly and poetically, making it the kind of album that would fit in your record collection perfectly alongside LPs by The Afghan Whigs, later Superchunk and Cari Clara.
When you fall in love with Koala Fires after hearing this album (if you aren't already in love with them), don't be too sad. Mooney has a new-direction project in the works, Retherford and Evans play together in the Cincy band House of Feeble Minds and Zink is a member of up-and-comers The Future Strikes. The Fires will burn on. (Click here to purchase the album digitally.)
Beginning Sept. 3 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati's Childlaw Gallery (1212 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine), the people behind the massive photography exhibition FotoFocus will set their lenses on the many great concert photographers in the region.
Reverberation: Capturing the Live Music Experience will coincide with the MidPoint Music Festival, located just off the 12th Street MidPoint Midway (the strip featuring vendors, food, live music the box truck carnival and much more). Hours will be extended during MPMF, with the exhibit staying open until 9 p.m. on Sept. 26 and 10 p.m. on Sept. 27-28. (Normal hours, starting Sept. 3, are 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Mondays-Fridays, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays). The exhibit closes Sept. 29.
The work of 29 artists will be featured in the exhibit, including shots from legends like Melvin Grier (an award-winning photojournalist who shot many years for The Cincinnati Post) and Michael Wilson (whose portraits have been featured on the covers of albums by The Replacements, Over the Rhine, Lyle Lovett, Ron Sexmith and many others), as well as Maurice Mattei, Sean Hughes, Keith Klenowski and Kara Smarsh. (Click on the names to check out some of the artists' work.)
The ambitious Crown Jewels of Jazz Heritage Festival kicks off today with a special concert in Washington Park featuring Philly Jazz/Funk/R&B squad PIeces of a Dream and local faves Marc Fields and Airwave. The expanded festival and new format this year is the work of Kathy Wade and friends, who run the Learning Through Art non-profit.
The Jazz Heritage Fest isn't a one-stop event. Besides Washington Park, numerous retailers, bars and restaurants in Over-the-Rhine and Mount Adams (across seven street blocks) will be a part of the fest's "Global Village." These venues will feature live Jazz each night of the fest and offer 20% discounts on their goods and services. It's a great way to get people to explore the thriving neighborhoods.
• Another Part of The Forest
• Below Zero Lounge
• Iris
• Urban Eden
• Japp's
• Mayberry
• Mr.Pitiful's
• Neons
• Pet Wants
• Switch
• Segway
• Symphony Hotel
• Taste of Belgium
• Zula
• Art Beyond Boundaries
• Couture Couture Boutique
• Park and Vine
• Little Mahatma
• Venice On Vine
• Clay Street Press
• Street Pops
• Atomic Number 10
• Ensemble Theater
• The Know Theater
• Elementz
• Mt. Adams Bar and Grill
• The Blind Lemon
• The Grotto
• Longworth's
Tomorrow (Thursday), Crown Jewels joins forces with the It's Commonly Jazz series in Eden Park's Seasongood Pavilion. Great vocalist Gregory Porter will perform at 6 p.m.
On Friday in Washington Park, Phil DeGreg's Samba Connection will be joined by singer Mandy Gaines and The Cincy Brass are also set to perform.
Saturday, the fest wraps up with headliner Diane Schuur, as well as Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra and Kathy Wade.
Single-day wristbands are available for $15 or you can purchase one good for all four days for just $40. There are also limited edition VIP wristbands which will get you into four "Meet the Artists Receptions" after each of the big four concerts. Proceeds benefit Learning Through Arts' Books Alive! For Kids, a performing arts/literacy program.
Wristbands for Books Alive! are available at the Aronoff Center Box Office and online at learningthroughart.com here.
Shinedown has been touring on its most recent album, Amaryllis, for the last two years and has just started its Carnival of Madness tour to complete touring on the record. It is the band's biggest, brightest and loudest tour yet. With each album, Shinedown's rocking sound shows bigger energy and different sides, as well as different looks.
CityBeat was able to catch up with bass player Eric
Bass to discuss life on tour and the close bond the band members have,
even after all these years. Shinedown will be tearing up the PNC
Pavilion at Riverbend on Saturday night on its Carnival of Madness tour
stop with Papa Roach, In This Moment and Skillet. (The concert is sold out.)
CityBeat: You guys have really been successful with the last couple albums. You have been on the Billboard charts for over two consecutive years. Did you ever expect that would happen?
Eric Bass: Did I ever expect it? I always hoped it would happen, I guess. You work really hard. We have this thing we say: "Keep your head down, stay humble and move forward." We are blown away by the success. To be honest with you, if you had told the 17-year-old me this was what was going to be happening, he'd be ecstatic. I can't say that I expected it to happen. We wanted it to happen. We worked really hard for it. We are not surprised, I guess you could say, because of the hard work. It is a true blessing to be able to do what we do and have the success we have had.
CB: The band has been touring constantly. How do you make time to write new songs on the road?
EB: We actually don't write on the road. We like to separate the two. We go home when we are done with this tour. We will lock ourselves away for a year and write as many songs as we can. Then, when we are done with that, we will go out and tour again and complete the process. We wrote "Diamond Eyes" on tour because it was for a movie soundtrack. That was the first experience we had with that. It worked out and everything went well with it. We work really hard when we are on tour. We are a go-go-go all day long band with interviews, meet and greets and that sort of thing. So there is really not a lot of time to get in and be creative like that. We prefer to separate the two and that creates the situation where each record is pretty different from the others because they are different times and you are not overlapping time periods. You are separating into blocks. It makes the records really interesting.
CB: I have photographed you on your last couple tours. Your shows have grown larger and larger with more pyro and turned into huge Rock shows. How did you guys prepare for Carnival of Madness?
EB: Well we started talking about it two or three months ago and we said, "It's not going to be small." That was the whole thing. We were going to make it as big as we could possibly make it. We are bringing our whole sound system with us. We are bringing our own lights. We are bringing our own pyro. We basically have carnival performers that are out with us. It is just a conscious, concerted effort to, every time, step your game up. We have sort of become known for that when we do these big headlining runs. We don't want to disappoint anybody. People paid good money and want to see a great Rock show and that's what they are going to get.
CB: You actually have carnival performers on stage with you?
EB: We actually do, yes. It's going to be fun. I think everybody is going to really enjoy the show.
CB: The first show was this past weekend. How is it going so far?
EB: We are one down. We have the second one tonight. The first one was great. Internally, we found a couple things we could do differently, do a little bit better. We are definitely going to do that. The first show was great. The crowd was very receptive. It was awesome. I think tonight is going to be even better. Then the Cincinnati show, by that time, we will be well-oiled machines and veterans.
CB: Shinedown has a huge social media presence. Why is it important for you guys to stay connected to your fans in that way?
EB: Because the fans are the reason we get to do what we do. We never forget that. The fans are the boss, the most important thing. The fans buy the tickets, they buy the records. I have to say, and it's going to sound cliché but it's not meant to be, we have the best fans. Our fans are ridiculously loyal. We like to keep up with them. We actually know … you would be surprised how many fans we know. I'll see fans at meet and greets that I will know from Twitter. We keep up with them and we know what's going on. We like to hear what they have to say. They are going to let us know if something is not right. They will let us know if they don't like something, if they like something. It's a great tool to utilize as well. You get instant feedback on what you are doing.
CB: What are your hobbies outside of playing music all the time?
EB: It's kind of funny. I say all my hobbies become my jobs. I produce records. I do a lot of songwriting. I engineer, mix records. A lot of my hobbies have become my job.
I am a golfer. I enjoy golf a lot. More recently, I have started building model airplanes. I needed a quiet hobby I can sit in my house and do. It is something I have found solace in. It may be a little geeky, a little nerdy, but it is fun.
CB: You actually co-wrote "I'll Follow You" correct?
EB: Yep
CB: I love that song. I know it is the new single and it is out, but what is the story behind the song?
EB: The story of the song is pretty interesting. The piano part I had for a couple years. I had been playing it in sound checks. We don't write on the road, but if it's something someone in the band hears, "Hey remember that. Record that." We are pretty in tune with that sort of stuff.
We were out on our acoustic tour that we did on the end of our last record cycle with Will Hoge, a great singer-songwriter from Nashville. Nobody had really said anything about the piano thing I had, so I thought maybe it will be good for Will.
So I hit him up and said, 'On the next day off, I want to show you this piano piece I have got and we can write a song.' He gave me his number and said to give him a call. I gave him a call the day of, I called him like three times, never went to voicemail, never picked up.
The next day, I was like, "I called you three times." He said, "It never came through. I don't know what happened." That day at soundcheck, Brent was like, "What's that thing you are playing?" I was like, "Man, I have been playing it for three years." He finally woke up to it. We actually had the recording that day at sound check kind of going through the song. Some of the lyrics are actually in there from that first time we ever played it through, he and I.
If you fast forward six months when we finally wrote it, finally sat down and wrote the song, it happened seamlessly. We wrote it in like two hours, the whole thing was done. Lyrically, it is about the person in your life who is your best friend, your spouse or your girlfriend, your boyfriend or someone really close to you, that person you will always be there for and they will always be there for you.
CB: The band took a different turn on the latest album, playing with the full orchestra. How did that concept come about?
EB: We talked about how Madness had a lot of string-sections stuff. We just talked while we were writing the record about how to make this record a little bigger and a little more grand. That was the first thing that came up, we need to do something with horns and full orchestra, rather than just string sections.
It was fun. It was a blast to be in there to watch that stuff be recorded, watching your vision come to life was amazing. There is very little that we do that is not a conscious decision. We kind of see what we want to do next. We were talking about our next record the other day on the bus. We will probably start working on that next year. We already kind of got an idea for it of what we want it to be. It is pretty phenomenal to have this type and level of instruments on something you have worked on. You pinch yourself every once in a while because it's so cool.
CB: You guys have been together for some time. Are you all still friends? Do you still hang out?
EB: It's pretty funny, we love each other so much. We all still ride the same bus even though we don't have to. We, all four of us, camp out in the same place. We work out together every day. We eat together every day. We really are brothers. We have our moments of getting agitated with each other and angry with each other. There is something different that I don't see in a lot of bands we travel with. There are some, but they are few and far between. You get a group of people that genuinely like each other and genuinely get along.
I can count on one hand the times I have been up in someone's face in my band, that I have been that angry with someone. We just don't get like that. We talk things out. If there is a problem, we sit down and we are very honest with each other. We don't harbor any animosity toward each other for anything.
"I'll Follow You" is out right now and is a song Brent and I wrote. Everybody in the band is happy as hell about that because it is doing well. "Bully" is a song Brent and Zach wrote, and I was happy as hell that was doing well. A lot of people get caught up in the unimportant stuff, like who makes more money or what's going on with this or who's more popular in the band. We don't care about that stuff. It's about the band, the entire group. We all really care about each other. We hang out when we aren't on tour. It is really a blessing.
CB: It is amazing you guys spend so much time together and it is still like that. There aren't many people I could spend 24 hours a day with?
EB: We see each other more than we see our wives and girlfriends and our families. We are married. We have to get along. There is no way around it. You can tell on stage. We smile at each other on stage. We joke around. We throw picks at each other. It's genuine. It's not an act. You can tell bands on stage that don't like each other, and you can definitely tell bands on stage that do, and we are one of those bands that really like each other.
There is no denying the legendary status of Black Sabbath. They are all Rock & Roll superstars, defining Hard Rock and Metal, both as forms of music and lifestyles. Without Sabbath, we would not have seen the likes of the Metal acts of today, like Slipknot and Tool, or fellow legends like Motorhead and Megadeth, as well as much of Grunge (and all of Stoner Metal).
Frontman Ozzy Osbourne does not see Black Sabbath as a Metal band. At a pre-tour press conference Osbourne elaborated on this: "I've never really liked that—- using that word 'Heavy Metal' — because '80s Metal was all Poison, Motley Crue, Ozzy and so on, and the '70s was a different thing, you know? And it got different in the '90s. I mean, it's like it doesn't have any musical connotations for me."
The new Black Sabbath album, 13, is not a Metal album. It is more like their earliest work together, not the Paranoid or Masters of Reality years, but the time they were grinding it out as a heavy Blues band. This is, of course, not your typical Blues album, nor has Black Sabbath abandoned what made them the legends they have become.
What gave the band the inspiration to produce their first No. 1 album (yes, I repeat, first No. 1) was one simple concept, one simple word — freedom. Ozzy explains, "There's a lot of free spirit, which is what (producer Rick Rubin) was looking for, I suppose. It must have been. We did very well, his idea of a Black Sabbath album."
On Sunday night, Black Sabbath rolls into the Klipsch Music Center in Indianapolis. After nearly 45 years of Black Sabbath, a lot of lineup changes have been made. This is not a different lineup. This is the original crew (minus drummer Bill Ward).
This is Ozzy, clean, sober and still with that distinct sound that no one else in the business can touch. It is guitarist Tony Iommi, who beat cancer while the new album was being made, truly the "Ironman" of the band (as Osbourne refers to him). It is bassist and band lyricist Geezer Butler. Rumors are already flying that this may be their last tour together, so it will be a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience for many.
Here are a few more snippets from the pre-tour press conference to get you fired up. The humbleness and pride really shined through in all of Ozzy's answers.
Q: Hey, I remember back when Sabbath originally got back together in the late 90s and you guys did a lot of touring then into the next decade. The band had tried back then for a time to get a new record together and then it didn't materialize. Can you put your finger on what made things different this go around that did enable you to come up with some pretty raw material?
Ozzy Osbourne: You know what? I was doing this television thing with The Osbournes back then, and I had my own career, and I suppose it was a clash of egos and it just didn't feel right. We tried to force an album. In fact we did — we recorded a demo with a bunch of stuff, which is nothing like the way we used to do. We were forcing it out of ourselves. Whereupon this album, the 13 album (that) just kind of came out, we just clicked. I mean, you know when you're in a band and you go into something that is working. You know, we didn't have to force it. It just came naturally.
Q: When did you realize that?
Ozzy: There's no answer - there's no formula. There's no magic — it just happens or it doesn't. I wasn't really into it (during the earlier attempt). They weren't really into it and you can't force it. It either comes or it doesn't and I said before in the press that the reunion album was going to have to be something special, the most important album of my career.
When it comes out naturally and you get that tickling feeling in your spine and you know you're on a sort of that spiritual thing you sort of — you know that everything's working right, you're not forcing it.
Q: 13 has already proved to be very successful for the band. It's the band's first No. 1 album in the U.S. How does this feel after 45 years?
Ozzy: You know what? You're asking the wrong guy, because when it went to No. 1 in England, it just went No. 1 in England, America, Germany, New Zealand and I'm like, "What?" I mean, I'm still kind of pinching myself, like I'm going to wake up and it's all been a dream, because had this happened in 1972 after Paranoid, I'd have gone, "Oh, yes, OK." But now after 45 years up the road and we get our first No. 1, it's kind of a hard thing to swallow, you know? You just kind of — it's great. I'm not saying I don't want it to be No. 1, but I just don't understand why now, you know? I mean, we've been around for a long time, in one way or another.
Q: OK, so now you've got the album that you wanted. What's the live show going to be like?
Ozzy: You know, all I can say is a month or so ago we were in New Zealand, Australia and Japan, and it was astounding how the reception was. We're going to do some old and we're going to do some new and it's just kind of interesting to be able to do some new stuff because in the past I haven't been able to do a lot of new stuff because of the fact that my range is too high and I couldn't do onstage what I did in the studio.
But now on this, on 13, I sang it in a range that I could do most of them on stage so we did new things, "End of the Beginning", "God is Dead?" and a couple of others, but we couldn't do most of the cuts off the album, if you want to change them around and all. We're not going to go and just do new stuff with very limited old stuff. We're going to do "Paranoid," "Black Sabbath," a good mix of the old stuff as well as the new stuff.
Q: I wanted to see if you could talk about Tony Iommi, just how inspirational for you it was watching your friend battling cancer while making this album, and his courage.
Ozzy: You know, when he came down with cancer, it's been the way of Sabbath. That is, we'd try to get something going again, and the last time, (original drummer) Bill Ward had a heart attack and we couldn't do it then. The easiest part of getting back together with Black Sabbath and doing an album is just sitting down and just saying, "Yes, you know," but then all kinds of crap gets flown in the works.
And Tony kept going. He said, "I've got this lump," and I said, "You know what? If I were you, I'd go and get myself checked out, because you know in a way, it was what I said to Sharon — my wife Sharon went to get checked out early part of of 2000, and she found she had colon cancer, so she had to go and get it checked out." So he came back and he said, they've found I've got lymphoma, and I go, 'This is unbelievable.' Every time we start to get going -—it's like a curse, you know? And believe me, I know from firsthand with my wife that treatment for cancer is not like doing a line of coke and going to a disco. It knocks the crap out of you, you know? But fair play to Tony, it just came down to the studio.
The only thing we had to do was make it easier for him to get treatment. In other words, we started off at my studio in Calabasas, but we all moved to his studio in England, and we all stayed in a hotel for a while to accommodate him, and he would come down to the studio every day. I'd go, "Tony, you're sure you're okay to do this, man, are you ready?" And he goes, "No I'll do it," and he came down, he came up with the goods.
I thought my God, man, he is "Ironman." You know, I mean, my hat goes off to him, because I mean, believe me, I don't know if you have ever known anybody who had chemotherapy before, but that really knocks the life out of you, man.
Q: I'm just curious what the impetus was that — when you called Tony back in 2010 and said, you know, let's get the band back together, I want to make another Sabbath album, what was going through your mind at that time?
Ozzy: I can't really remember who called who. I think it originally was me and Tony doing an album and then we tried various bass lines and we tried the instruments out and we tried a whole bunch of people, and I don't know who said, what's Geezer up to and, you know, and it just kind of came together by accident and we all started to write stuff and it started to gel. Whereas we tried before and we all sat there and it just wouldn't —- it … just wouldn't work, you know.
But it came together very naturally and it wasn't too long to where it was like, 'I like that, that's pretty cool,' and so you can't force anything, right? You can just, you can try and be Black Sabbath, but we all knew that we didn't want to put an album out called Black Sabbath, just for the sake of us guys getting together and doing stuff together. At one point there was even talk like not calling it a Black Sabbath album, but eventually it rolled into itself.
Q: I wanted to ask about the lyrics on the album. Now I know Geezer has a big hand in that. How does the process work? Who create the lyrics?
Ozzy: Well, what happens is I get a melody, and I'll just sing anything, and sometimes it can be like a beginning or a hook line or a couple of words that he gets inspiration from. He's the main lyricist, although I wrote a couple of the sets of lyrics on the album, but Geezer gives Black Sabbath's vocal message verbally. I mean, over the years, he's given me some phenomenal lyrics, you know.
He's just one of these guys that can do that. I get an idea like "God is Dead?" for instance. One day I was in the doctor's office waiting room, and Time magazine was just sitting on the front with "God is Dead?" and I thought, 'Wow, that's a good idea,' and I started singing that on the track, you know, the "God is Dead?" bit.
You know, I thought, 'They've flown planes into the World Trade Center under the name of religion and God and all this shit, and that is not my idea of what God should be.' My idea of what God should be is a good guy, you know? I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God. And so Geezer — that was my idea — and Geezer took it to another level.
Q: Did you ever have to have discussions about things that he writes that you might not agree with?
Ozzy: No, no.
Q: Is there ever a back and forth?
Ozzy: He's very careful. I mean, if you listen to the lyrics on "God is Dead?" at the end of the song it says, "I don't believe that God is dead." people just look at the face value of the title, and I know on this tour we're going to have Bible thumpers and people picketing us and people telling us that we're evil and all that. We kind of laugh at it, because people just go the face value (of) "God is Dead?" and it's all about Satan and it's just quite amusing, actually, because they don't really know what they're complaining about.
Q: This is just a little bit off-topic. In the movie God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, I noticed toward the end you were learning to drive. I just wanted to know what was going on with that.
Ozzy: See what happened, I got a driving license, bought a Ferrari, I bought an RA Spider, and the people would get out of the bloody road when Ozzy was driving, I'm telling you. I was always getting stopped by the cops or running into somebody else's car, so one day I said to my wife, "You know what? I'm 64. I don't really want to be found dead in a Ferrari." I've survived this long of all my trials over my life. I don't want to drive over a cliff in a car, so I haven't really been driving since I sold the Ferrari and the RA.


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"I was always daddy's little girl. We did everything together. He was my hero. My father was always there with a hug for me; when I was little, he let me climb all over him like he was a jungle gym.
And then my body changed. I developed early; I had boobs by 11. And all of a sudden, my Dad stopped hugging me or touching me. He went overnight from being my best friend to being remote and critical."
I read that in a student's journal earlier this semester (quoted with permission). I've read and heard similar things countless times over the course of nearly 20 years teaching gender studies and doing youth ministry. Ask any family therapist who works with teen girls, and they'll report the same thing I've heard: story after story of fathers withdrawing physical affection as soon as their daughters hit puberty. Keep reading »

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Meth Watch: Resources for Retailers
Customer Letter (PDF): Provide to customers if they have questions about the placement of their cold medicine.
Suspicious Transaction Report: Retail employees play an invaluable role in assisting law enforcement in preventing the manufacturing of methamphetamine in Maine communities. This report is a guide for employees in reporting suspicious transactions to law enforcement. Report in Excel | Report in PDF
Employee Poster (PDF): Awareness is the first step in preventing the manufacturing of methamphetamine and the inevitable theft of precursor ingredients. The Maine Meth Watch Program can provide retailers with a poster for employee break rooms that pictures many of the common ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamine.
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Anyone know what tomato this is or if its even a tomato plant? All my plantings in the back were destroyed by squirrels, but in the front of my house I found this growing. It has yellow flowers and leaves like a tomato and so far its creating an elongated fruit. It hasn't grown very high, maybe a foot, but it's spread about three feet around with a lot of flowers and unripe fruit right now. Was just wondering if its a real tomato or some random nightshade.
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What literary device, if any, is used in the play Othello?
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Shakespeare uses the literary device of dramatic irony in Othello. Dramatic irony occurs when there is a discrepancy between what a character believes and what the reader/viewer knows to be true. For example, the audience knows that Iago is a traitor and misleads Othello regarding Desdemona's fidelity. The audience reads/watches in horror as Othello trusts Iago's information and murders his wife. The result is one of the most heartwrenching scenes ever written, since we witness "the fall of a proud, dignified man," and "the murder of a graceful, loving woman" because of Iago's treachery.
There are a lot of ironies used in this play. The most important one is verbal irony. When Iago tries to makes schemes it actually means something else, he always tries to come up with excuses by making those schemes. that is verbal irony
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the Madison dress in red stretch satin
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Apr 12, 2010, 05.30 PMby scrabble0404
DAMN, girl.
Mar 9, 2010, 08.28 AMby clarros
this is a jaw-dropping, show stopping dress. the color is ravishing.
Nov 14, 2009, 01.53 AMby Lucy Garrido-Mota
This is stunning. Was it hard to create the pockets?
Dec 16, 2009, 03.39 PMby gypsylov1
if your at least intermediate i would say the pockets are pretty easy.
Nov 13, 2009, 07.38 AMby patriciafavre
Magnifique !! red is beautiful, so sexy…
Oct 6, 2009, 02.48 PMby re3ecca
Amazing! I'm speechless!
Oct 6, 2009, 02.39 PMby summerbreeze-1
This is simply stunning! I wish I could sew something this beautiful!
Oct 6, 2009, 10.46 AMby pixelink
The stretch satin is perfect for the pattern, love how the neckline is more softer…stunning!
Oct 6, 2009, 09.08 AMby begysh
awesome.. like stefanisarah said yours is better than burda version. and must say the wall paintings…. i love them too.
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amazing! it looks fabulous, well done!!
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super fabulous!!
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so gorge! the matching lipstick is amazing! great job!
Oct 5, 2009, 12.18 PMby lenarrrd
I love it! This is the second time I've seena version of this dress and wanted to make one of my own, despite not liking the original design. Bravo!
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Stunning! Great work Burda team! I love the color as well-it is very powerful
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Oct 4, 2009, 07.19 PMby anajan
Gorgeous! The satin really works as a fabric for this pattern. Love the shade of red. Also, I like the porcelain doll look of the model on the second photo. Stunning!
Oct 4, 2009, 04.52 PMby littlevigilante
The stretch fabric definately adds an element of luxury! It makes this dress seem sumptuous to be in.
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gorgeous! Very well made! The photography is also beautiful, like a cover of a fashion magazine
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As stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe would say: ¨Love, Love, Love!¨
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For me, just perfect!:) Like the graffiti behind the model
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Really stunning! Love it!
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Oh My Days! Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. The original pattern was nice but not enough to make me consider making it myself.. but your creation sets of inspirational bells and whistles! The model and the photography makes your stunning dress sing. Great work!
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This is a real jewel!!
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Great job… ^^
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Beautiful! I want to make one now, you did a great job!
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In an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing on California emissions regulations, the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) stated that industry plans to support EPA's waiver but would need enough lead-time to comply. OPEI counsel, William M. Guerry Jr. said that the OPEI had agreed to support most aspects of the California rule for the unique California market. However, OPEI had succeeded in persuading California Air Resource Board (CARB) to provide equipment manufacturers with needed phase and flexibility. California submitted a waiver request to EPA in April 2005 for its regulation on lawn and garden equipment. Guerry told EPA officials that industry could largely support an EPA waiver for the California rule, pending some changes allowing equipment manufacturers more time to comply. Guerry said the California rule would lead to higher prices and fewer consumer choices, especially from small outdoor equipment manufacturers. EPA has indicated that it will issue proposed regulations for the other 49 states by the end of the year. The agency will take public comment on the California waiver until Aug. 1, 2006. The federal rule will have to be reviewed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Guerry also explained why it was critical for the International Consortium for Fire Safety, Health and the Environment (ICFSHE) to continue with their catalyst safety study to address unresolved questions so that equipment manufacturers will better understand the challenges of building safe and emissions compliant catalyzed equipment.
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18 This is the charge which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, in accordance with the inspired instructions concerning you which were given me long ago, that being equipped with them as your armour you may be continually fighting the good fight, | 18 Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, |
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jrock65 Posts: 1,371Car and Driver $55K sedan comparo:
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kyfdx Posts: 31,882I think a lot of C&D stuff is just luck of the draw... They get what cars are sent to them... and, they have to make up some criteria to make them competitive with each other..
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richcream Posts: 205STS = V8
S-Type = V8
Yes the RL, Mercedes, and Bimmer are all 6's, but that is because:
Acura has no 8...not C&D's fault.
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virtualbmw Posts: 86Almost every 545 that is sold has a sport package. We are the #1 selling BMW Center in the nation and have 58 545's in our inventory. One of them doesn't have a sport package.
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richcream Posts: 205Yeah... but, every one of those cars is available with a six-cylinder...
Yes, but the bar, as set by C&D, and the market, to some extent, was $55,000.
The Bimmer and Benz 8 cylinders are not attainable at that number.
If performance were the determining factor, then yeah I would say they should have compared all the 6 cylinder versions.
Of course, this would totally ignore the sales prices of the vehicles, which I'm sure is one of the main reasons (if not the main reason) to conduct a comparison test (to let consumers know which vehicle will give them more bang for their buck.)
Maybe they could have factored pricing into the "points" rating system, but that would have greatly diminished the scoring of the Mercedes and the BMW anyway, which I'm sure would be as decried, if not moreso, than the "why were 6's pitted against 8's?" issue.
Basically, they are comparing (for the sake of the dollar-conscience consumer) based on price, and not for the sake of the performance enthusiast for whom price is not an issue. -
kyfdx Posts: 31,882They see what cars show up..... then set their criteria according to what is available...
I couldn't care less who wins these comparos... But, it is interesting to see what they say about each individual car, and what they consider its good and bad points compared to the competition..MODERATOR
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lexusguy Posts: 6,419Yep, the M35 won that comparison. If I were a German auto exec, I'd be a bit nervous by this article. I found it rather amusing that C&D actually thought about throwing an S80 T6 into this. Why not bring an Avalon along as well? Since when is the S80 even a sports sedan at all? I'm not surprised Volvo turned them down either. After all, the S80 is ANCIENT compared to this class, and it would've been like sending a Sopwith Camel into a dogfight with a bunch of Raptors and Super Hornets.
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kyfdx Posts: 31,882Except that there were big incentives on the '03 5-series sedans, and the M5 was likely bringing MSRP or more...
I'd bet the real world price was at least $15K apart....
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merc1 Posts: 6,081The point was lost long ago it seems. Now we're into how many sport packages BMW sells or how many E500s are sold. Even further from what was stated origianlly. I agree that the RX getting more power is a good thing for passing. My point about its handling was from what I experienced and also from what I'd seen in the press, but mainly from drivng the RX a few times with someone looking at one. The first test C&D every did talked about this concerning the RX. I've seen nothing of the sort about the ML, X5, or any other European luxury SUV. The analogy about the 5-Series and E-Class doesn't apply because with those upgraded cars you get more than just more power on the same suspension tunning. They're upgraded.
jjacura Posts: 808Just one more comment....If Lexasguy wasn't airforceguy, then maybe he tipped his hand and really was NavyPilotGuy.. ;-) ..and to keep this forum on track....I really liked the results of those C&D totals published earlier. The RL faired extremely well. Hip Hip Hooray for Acura and C & D magazine!
merc1 Posts: 6,081Very interesting comparo. What else of interest is in the newest issue? I'm surprised the E-Class beat out all of its newer European rivals. The 5-Series definitely doesn't have a cheering stand at Car and Driver anymore. Though of course I think all V8s should have been tested. Who really shops V6s against V8s in this class? Not many I'd imagine. Poor Jaguar, always in the rear. Looks like the STS isn't living up to the Lutz hype either. Lexus' dreams of building a true 5-Series competitor might have been realized if it weren't for that pesky Infiniti.
As usual my copy won't arrive until this time next week!
rboyd4 Posts: 23I think at this point enough comparisons are filtering in to say that the Infiniti is very strong competition. Particularly once price and reliability are factored in. In one test the M35 came in first and now the M45 comes in first in another test. I think the M45 came in second on the Edmunds test.
I will make one 100% prediction however. If Consumer Reports does a similar test the Infiniti will come in at or near the very bottom and Lexus will come in at or near the very top.
We can all belabor the nuances of exactly which cars are better forever. Suffice to say the competition is extremely keen nowadays.
What I garner from all of these tests is that the lead BMW always held is definitely fading. Maybe the 5 series 8 cyl. would have won the C&D comparo but by how much? Then what about the price difference (20%)?
Somewhat surprised the Acura came in second because on this and other forums it has been pretty well hammered relative the cited competition.
Maybe I should reconsider and add the RL to my list along with the M and the A6. The E could be my back up if I could find a good deal on the secondary market but I would be concerned with maintenance issues. -
saugatak Posts: 488If a V6 or straight 6 could replicate what an 8 does there wouldn't be 8's selling for 10 grand more than what a 6 does, right?
This statement is a little misleading. A 6 cylinder engine and 8 cylinder engine with equal technology and the same displacement will produce equal power.
The advantage of having more cylinders is that the power output should "theoretically" be smoother because there is a shorter time gap between cylinders firing the more cylinders there are. I say theoretically because there are a host of other factors.
For example, let's take a 3.5L V6 and a 3.5L V8 with the exact same technology. Let's assume each will produce max 280 HP and 235 ft/lb at 5k rpm.
Assuming that each engine has the same stroke to simplify this example, this means that the v6 will have a bigger bore than the v8.
In real world terms, the v6 will fire 6 times per second (it can be any time interval but I'm using 1 second here to make the point) and the v8 will fire 8 times per second. They produce the exact same power, but the v6 produces more power each time it fires and the v8 produces less power each time it fires but fires more often.
This is why the v8 should be smoother.
However, it's not that simple. A straight 6, for example, is perfectly balanced and has no need for a balancing shaft, which in turn robs power and causes variations in the torque curve depending upon the rpm. That's why BMW's straight 6 is legendary for its smoothness and smooth power acceleration -- no balancing shaft as found in equivalent v6's.
That's also the reason why everyone says BMW underrates its HP. I think the torque and HP ratings on BMW's straight 6s are on target. BMW just does a better job of getting the HP to the wheels and the ready acceleration at any point of the torque curve makes the straight 6 feel more powerful.
In contrast, the v8 is basically 2 I4s joined at the V. An I4 is an inherently unbalanced engine with primary and secondary vibrations and requires 2 balancer shafts. A v8 consisting solely of 2 I4s is called a "flat-planed" v8 and is one hell of a rough engine. To my knowledge, only Ferrari makes flat planed v8s.
All of the luxury cars we're discussing are "cross-planed" v8s, that is the 2 cylinder banks are offset at 90 degree angles to kill some of the inherent primary and secondary vibrations of 2 I4s. However, this has the side effect of robbing some power, which is why Ferrari goes with flat planed v8s, and which is also why Ferrari sounds like a jet taking off, too much NVH for the luxury car market.
Even though cross-planed v8s are quieter than flat-planed v8s, cross-planed v8s generate a certaing whirring growl when accelerating. Most people actually like that sound and associate it with a luxury car.
GM makes a 4.2 L straight 6 that is as powerful and as smooth as a v8, but of course a straight 6 is a long engine and would not fit under the hood of normal sized cars.
I think it would be possible to make a 4.2L or 4.3L v6 that is just as smooth and as powerful as the equivalent sized cross-planed v8. Although the cross-planed v8 should be smoother, a 60 degree v6 is an inherently smoother design with less secondary vibration. So both the v8 and v6 have their NVH advantages, the v8 smoother power delivery, the v6 less vibrations.
Engine design requires compromises of power, smoothness, efficiency, packaging and marketing. Both 6 and 8 cylinders can be designed to do the task required.
IMO, it's marketing that requires 8 cylinders for the lux market, because a smooth v6 with enough power should be as good as a v8. -
saugatak Posts: 488Where's the stick?
On this basis alone, I'd give the nod to BMW.
I'll hold off my judgment until I try BMW's new engines. I haven't driven the e60 530 or the M, but I've driven the 645 a lot, and I have to believe that the 645 drives just about the same as the e60 5 series.
There are a lot of things I don't like about the e60 5 (it's ugly, the interior is cheap, the price increase was ridiculous), but as far as driveability goes, it is awesome. The 645, despite being bigger and heavier than my e36 3 series, is a far better road handler. And of course, I do love inline 6's.
I'm just glad that Infiniti is taking it to BMW. If the M steals enough sales from the 5 series, BMW will finally listen to its customers for a change and give us what we want instead of having overpaid suits make all their bonehead blunders.
raising prices and cheapening the interior?
forcing active steering on the sports package? (I actually like active steering but requiring it in the sports package?)
Who makes these idiotic decisions anyway?


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As they've done each week, our experts weigh in one more time on the final game of the NFL season, Super Bowl XLIX between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.
As they've done each week, our experts weigh in one more time on the final game of the NFL season, Super Bowl XLIX between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.
As neutrals, Ravens fans will likely look at the Super Bowl with equal parts disdain, envy, and indifference. But if you'd like to watch it constructively, this week's Five for Friday features five players from the Seahawks and Patriots whom the Ravens could make a play for.
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More than 4,000 of Rear Adm. Edgar Keats' biggest fans sang "Happy Birthday" to him Friday afternoon.
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On Feb. 5, 2005, the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda opened with a gala concert by its primary resident ensemble and founding partner, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, led by then music-director Yuri Temirkanov. Speeches and festivities were plentiful.
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The Baltimore Sun will follow Franklin's Steven Smothers, Gilman's Ellison Jordan and McDonogh's Eric Burrell on the recruiting trail as they try to decide over the next year which college will be the best fit. This is part two of an occasional series.
The Maryland men's basketball team's overall record and body of work throughout the 2014-15 season have put the Terps in far better position to secure the program's first NCAA tournament bid since Mark Turgeon took over four years ago.
In recent months, there has been a flood of video evidence of police violence in our communities. Earlier this week, a gut-wrenching video surfaced that shows a school police officer violently attacking three young girls inside one of our middle schools. The incident starts when one of the...
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Hello foodies,
Ever heard of Maille mustard? It's really good stuff and you can find it on pretty much any supermarket shelf in the country.
Their Dijon and wholegrain is a staple in my house and I think the range is tops.
Fantastic gastronomic news! They've released 2 more great flavours – Horseradish and Xtra hot.
The Horseradish is really 1st class. Run it through some simple mashed potatoes or dollop it onto the top of some grilled trout or salmon – delicious. I also tried it as a condiment for some gourmet boerie, hot off the braai – droolworthy.
The XX-Hot is tasty but not XX-Hot in my book. It's more like a toned down version of Hot English Mustard without the sting.
If you need some recipe ideas using mustard, check out our Top 5 recipes with mustard.
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Unconventional geothermal techniques a potential game changer for U.S. energy policy
SMU Geothermal energy expert David Blackwell gave a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday, March 27, on the growing opportunities for geothermal energy production in the United States.
Blackwell's presentation outlined the variety of techniques available for geothermal production of electricity, the accessibility of unconventional geothermal resources across vast portions of the United States and the opportunities for synergy with the oil and gas industry. Continue reading
UPI: Study: E-readers improve boys' reading
UPI covered the research of Dara Williams-Rossi, clinical assistant professor and director of undergraduate programs in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education & Human Development.
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Quantum Diaries: Cleaning the world's biggest machine
SMU postdoctoral researcher Aidan Randle-Conde, SMU Department of Physics, posted about his experience working at the world's largest physics experiment at CERN on the blog Quantum Diaries.
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Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers
Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to SMU research.
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National Geographic has launched its new Explorers web site, which includes SMU doctoral student Andrés Ruzo.
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The New York Times has written a comprehensive piece on the long-running global controversy surrounding double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius, the South African vying to compete in the Olympics.
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SMU physicists at CERN find hints of long sought after Higgs boson — dubbed the fundamental "God" particle
In a giant game of hide and seek, physicists say there are indications they finally may have found evidence of the long sought after fundamental particle called the Higgs boson.
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Wired: Lasers Power Pentagon's Next-Gen Artificial Limbs
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Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Jason Hammel pitched 7 1/3 scoreless frames and Colorado rolled over Houston, 5-1, in the first of four games at Coors Field.
"I had fastball command. It opened up all other pitches," said Hammel.
Hammel (3-3) scattered six hits with three walks and three strikeouts. Clint Barmes drove home two runs for the Rockies, who have won two straight.
Wandy Rodriguez (3-8) was the loser, giving up three runs on nine hits with two walks and two strikeouts over seven innings. Geoff Blum's ninth-inning single accounted for Houston's lone run. The Astros have lost two of three.
"We have some guys that can swing the bats real well. The double play bug got us a little bit tonight," said Astros manager Brad Mills.
Colorado put up a two-spot in the home second as Miguel Olivo led off with a single and raced to third on Melvin Mora's one-out single. Barmes then doubled both runners home with a two-bagger to left.
In the home third, Ryan Spilborghs doubled, scampered to third on Troy Tulowitzki's single and scored on Brad Hawpe's force out on a grounder to second.
Colorado added a pair of insurance runs in the bottom of eighth. Hawpe's 11th double of the campaign started the proceedings then Olivo drilled a pitch into the right-center-field gap for an RBI triple. Todd Helton then skied a sacrifice fly to left for a 5-0 advantage.
Geoff's Blum's RBI single in the ninth put Houston on the scoreboard, but Manny Corpas struck out Jason Michaels with the bases loaded to end the contest.
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One of the biggest new features that Adobe is touting in After Effects CS6 is something they call the Global Performance Cache. The Global Performance Cache actually consists of three distinct, different features. One is a Global RAM Cache. You are used to the idea of creating RAM Previews in After Effects where you cache frames for fast playback. Well, now After Effects CS6 is much better at retaining those frames and reusing them, so you have to spend less time waiting on calculating fresh previews. The second feature is something called a Persistent Disk Cache. Again, you may be used to the idea that After Effects could cache some frames onto your hard drive if RAM happens to be full.
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Why Fan-Made Movie Trailers Are Often Better Than the Real Thing
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Welcome to the world of DIY fan trailers, where works created by the audience often turn out better than the source material.
Welcome to the world of DIY fan trailers, where works created by the audience often turn out better than the source material.
This weekend's dismal performance of Bryan Singer's much-anticipated Jack the Giant Slayer may have seemed familiar to those who recall the sad fate of Disney's John Carter almost exactly a year ago. But what exactly is the lesson that Hollywood should learn from this latest big budget flop? Jack's box office performance in its opening […]
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon writes a dizzying variety of fiction, from contemporary realism to supernatural horror to alternate history. His most recent project, however, was crafting the screenplay for Disney's John Carter, which was something else entirely. But his work wasn't always so varied. His early novels and stories are uniformly realistic. "I wondered about […]
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Dear Hollywood: Please start hiring the folks who make fan trailers. They're starting to get a leg up on you, as exemplified by this wonderful new John Carter megaclip. Hot on the heels of last week's amazing Avengers fan trailer, the new video uses footage we've already seen before, pulled from fan site The John […]
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- Takes roughly 30 minutes

AAMCO Transmissions
AAMCO Transmissions' locally owned outposts dot cities and towns from coast to coast. Since AAMCO opened 50 years ago, its transmission masters have extended their range of services to the realm of total car care, offering cars with faulty brakes, dirty oil, or broken air conditioners some one-on-one time with a handy mechanic. This commitment to full auto health also underlines AAMCO's promise that every vehicle receiving service is privy to a free multipoint inspection, during which mechanics explore beneath the hood, under the car, and in the GPS navigator's psyche to ensure safe operations and optimal performance.
82% of 728 customers recommend
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